Children and young people are more likely to achieve their learning potential when they have access to adequate and healthy food.

We provide funding to give children and students who need it access to breakfast programs in schools, preschools and children’s services. The funding helps to:

• provide consistently healthy and safe food and drink options in education settings for children and young people who turn up to school or preschool hungry
• improve physical health and additional social, cultural and emotional wellbeing benefits.

How government schools, preschools and children’s services can access funding

The department provides funding to support government schools and preschools to:

• increase the number of children and students accessing breakfast programs where these programs are currently offered
• enable schools or preschools that currently don’t run breakfast programs to offer one.

Staff can find out more about breakfast programs for schools, preschools and children’s services (staff login required).

Why we have breakfast programs

Breakfast can be the ideal start to a day of learning and can contribute to students’ sense of belonging when offered in a friendly environment.

Almost 10% of South Australian students skip breakfast every day. Research shows that there are varied and complex reasons that students either don’t access or skip breakfast.

Breakfast programs help provide consistently healthy and safe food and drink options in education settings for children and young people who turn up to school or preschool hungry.

Breakfast programs

If your child needs access to a breakfast program, talk to your school, preschool or children’s service .

Breakfast programs improve physical health and additional social, cultural and emotional wellbeing benefits.

They provide things like:

• cereal
• long life milk
• canned goods
• spreads
• fresh fruit
• fresh bread.

Breakfast program providers

The department gives funding to 2 organisations that provide breakfast programs across South Australia.

Foodbank SA & NT and Kickstart for Kids work with us to distribute consistently healthy and safe food and drink options to schools, preschools and children’s services. This is in line with the Right Bite food and drink supply standards.

Government schools, preschools and children’s services can contact a provider directly if they want to:

• run a breakfast program
• discuss any increasing demands for their existing programs
• discuss access to extra foods for students experiencing significant food insecurity.